bottlenose

«bottlenose» in Mova's school dictionary: The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bottlenose, bottlenoses); adjective (bottlenose)

meaning for a pupil

1) The bottlenose dolphin, a common grey dolphin with a short, bottle-shaped snout, often seen near coasts and in shows. tree →

2) A bottlenose whale, a kind of deep-diving whale. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and ocean lessons, bottlenose dolphins are clever mammals that use echolocation, whistle to each other and live in groups called pods. Phrases: bottlenose dolphin, a pod of bottlenoses.

examples

• A pod of bottlenose dolphins swam beside our boat. tree →
• Bottlenose dolphins use clicks to find fish. tree →
• Each bottlenose has its own signature whistle, like a name. tree →
• Bottlenoses breathe air through a blowhole. tree →
• We saw bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay. tree →
• The bottlenose leapt high out of the water. tree →

note

Mostly used before dolphin. Dolphins are mammals, not fish. Also spelled bottle-nose.

In the corpora

• A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.
• A bottlenose dolphin has its own whistle that works like a name, and its friends call it by copying that whistle.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bottlenose» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.